Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Sailor Tom in the Sewer

Here's another installment of "Sailor Tom" by Patrick S. O'Neil (reprinted with permission). It is from "KIDS Magazine" issue #9, from 1971. It is continued from issue #8, which I do not have. featured this in an earlier post, but it was presented in an incomplete fashion.

"KIDS Magazine" was billed as "the magazine for kids, by kids". Among the 38 young creators given a photo and description in a credit section of the magazine is O'Neil, who was an Ananda boy at the time.The two-page comic strip below had some influence in some comic strips of my own I drew years later, which involved at times tunnel adventures and polluting supervillains.

9 comments:

Churlita said...

All I can think of is our little blogger Ananda now.

P. J. Grath said...

Watercolor? I like the colors. When do we get to see yours, dmarks?

Jill said...

Starting early is good.

Ananda girl said...

Oh my gosh dmarks... Hahahaha Yep, I do recall that face so well. Patrick influenced a lot of people I think. Amazingly enough, he does not seem to know that. He's got a big head, but it's only size, not ego. Ha!

Thanks for the great trip down memory lane... gosh those were fun times. Feels good to see that face.
Thank you.

cube said...

Ditto what Churlita said.

BTW why do so many photos from the 70's feature such bad hairdos?

Ananda girl said...

Cube-- I think in the 70s fashion was all about looking as if hair, clothing etc was not an important issue. We had patches on patches on our jeans too. Make up and hair-dos were dont's. It was a funny but very fun era.

crazy4coens said...

dmark! thank you so much for the blast from the past! Patrick and Ananda....where the students choose what to study - i chose to study having friends and being stoned for days on end. the friends were great, the being stoned not so much so.

cube said...

Heh heh. If I were an Ananda School student today, I would choose blogging as my course of study.

BTW I'll let you know when I make my first dollar at it.

Ananda girl said...

Okay C4C we did learn some things. Let's see I also had the witchcraft class, mechanical drawing, watercolor... also with Patrick... dreams and fantasy, history with Bill... that was a great class! But my favorite was still geography with the giant scavenger hunt that got us to Santa Cruz. We also did some amazing things like when we spent the week shadowing Ken Maddy in Sacramento. It wasn't all getting high.